Hyperloop

Rapid UX-First, API-Second, Code-Last Prototype Creation

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Inspiration

Our customers often ask how they can quickly develop a Proof of Concept of their product's next generation. Progress usually recommends a standard development approach, where they refactor existing logic, wrap it in a REST API and then develop a Front-End UI.

_ Let's flip that upside-down and try something new _

What it does

A new Progress product called Unite-UX enables a new Sketch to Code approach, where the User Experience can be designed right at the start, and from that flows the API required, and from that flows the Code.

The new Swagger API-First and CI/CD tool chain capabilities in the new OE 12 release fits well into this approach.

Time permitting, we will also include Kinvey, KinveyChat, HDP, MoveIT, WuG and MenuTrack services in the PoC we build.

How To build it

  • Take real world requirements from a candidate customer
  • Create a User Experience using Progress Unite UX Sketch
  • Create a KendoUI Front End from that using Progress Unite UX Studio
  • Design a Swagger API based on the Front End
  • Implement a REST API on a sample OE database from the customer
  • Link the layers together and demonstrate a working Prototype

Challenges

This project requires many differing skill-sets:

  • A Designer to use Sketch and create a superb User Experience
  • A Front-End Developer who can use Unite UX Studio and KendoUI
  • Someone with Swagger, REST and PASOE knowledge, application evolution expertise
  • An OE guru who can anchor the entire prototype with ABL and Data using the latest OE 12 features
  • A Project Manager to keep everything on track and get the coffee

What we will learn

How to use the latest Progress technologies to deliver astounding visions of what future Progress-based applications could look like and show how quickly and easily it can be done

Team Members

  • Bent Olsby, Independent Consultant, Norway
  • Roland de Pijper, Progress PS, Holland
  • Chris Skeldon, Progress PS, United Kingdom
  • Korak Schoone, Progress PS, Holland
  • Conor Patten, Progress SE, Ireland

Built With

  • kinvey
  • kinveychat
  • openedge12
  • uniteux
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